Waterbury evening Democrat., 1887-12-31

a Sunday law enforced In New Orseans
 2. Failure of Dcnnison Paper company at Me- chanics' Falls, N. Y- Liabilities, Sgo.ooo.
 g. Western National bank, of New York, makes exSecretary Manning it's president
 MARCH,
 is Schooner yachts Coronet and Dauntles be- gan race across the Atlantic, finishing the 27th, the Coronet winner.-Iord & Polk. Whining. ton, Del. fail for s.o.ooo.
 A. Failure of Smith Brothers' New York Mo rocco company. for Ss75,oO
 a. Failure of Edminston- -waddeil company. Brooklyn, for Saooooo.
 APRIL
 G Statue of Gen. Albert Sydney Johnston dedi- cated at New Orleans
 10. Sunday laws enforced in Washington. D. C.
 Is. Columbia college, New York. 100 years old Appropriate celebration was made Of the event
 IA. The bodies of President Lincoln and wife were removed from secret grave 10 the monu- ment vault at Springfield, Ills.
 a6. John C. Calhoun's monument unveiled as Charleston, S. c.
 1. New York city authorities enforced the Sun day liquor laws
 I3 Auction sale of the French crowp jewels
 16 Treasure amounting to $25o, 900 GOO discov- cred in an East Indian palace.
 q. Father McGlynn formally excommunicated by orders from Rome.
 A. Nathan Hall statue unveiled at Hartford, Conn.
 14 Wheat panic in Chicago.
 1S Charges of heresy sustained against Profes- sor Smythe, of Andover. The other professors were acquitted.
 19 Veterans of Robert E Lee camp of Virginia, visiting Grand Army men at Boston. left for home.
 B. Failure of Hubbard & Palmer, bankers, Hart ford, Conn, for S60o000. 25. American fishing schooner Annie W. Hodg- son seized by Canadians of She.burne, and the Argonaut, seized of Souri's. AuousT. g. Henry S. Ives resigns the presidency of the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton railroad. Il. Henry s. Ives & Go. assigned; liabilities, $15,000000. @. Canadian sealers seized by United States authorities in the North Pacific. SEPTEMBER. g. International Medical congress met ct Wash ington, D. C.-Ameriean schooner seized fishing outside the three mile shore limit by Canadian authorities. l7. Celebration of centennial of adoption of United States constitution closed at Philadelphia. a. Steamship Alesia reached New York from Italy with cholera on board. %. The Grand Army of the Republic held its grand encampment at St. Louis closing on the 3Oth.-The Burgess centerboard yacht Volunteer defeated the Scotch cutter Thistle, holding the Americas cup. | OCTOBER | 8. Beginning of International Military encamp- ment in Chicago, Ills. | 5. Western Union Telegraph company suc- eeeded in buying up the Baltimore and Ohio, greatly to Robert Garrett's disgust. IS Unveiling of statue to Gen. Meade at Fair mount park, Philadelphia. % Lincoln statue unveiled in Chicago. 29 Lief Ericsson statue unveiled in Boston. NOVEMBER 16 Breckenridge statue unveiled in Louisville, Ky. | F. Beginning of conference between British and American fish commission. Little nothing accomplished. 1. Unveiling of Garfield statue in Cincinnati, O. 2. Evangelical Alliance conference in Washing ton, D. c. | I3 Failure of De Castro & Go, of New York, commission merchants; 900 assigned. 16. Differences with Courtlandt Palmer as to So- ciaIism induce Andrew Carnegie to resign from the Nineteenth Century club, New York IS Kilrain and Smith fight 1o6 rounds to a draw in France for Richard K- Fox's diamond belt and the championship of the world.